ABSTRACT
Overall, my study suggests how the Swedish social welfare organization Samhall, which is devoted to assisting ‘occupationally disabled individuals’ essentially enacts the ‘occupationally disabled’ person; and how this construction respects the organization’s aim to ‘develop people with occupational disabilities.’ Unemployed individuals that apply for welfare support eventually become instruments in the fulfillment of Samhall’s activities by learning the organized role of occupational disability that makes them competent players in the overall societal activity of assisting and rehabilitating ‘people with occupational disabilities.’
